So at the end of December, I'm on track for 12 books in 12 months. I'm, uh, quite far behind 52 books in 52 weeks.

This series of novels was written as a follow-up, or companion to Magician, Feist's début novel. It depicts life on the other side of the Rift, the home world of the Tsurani. The principle character, the "daughter of empire" is the ( Read more... )

While reading Achebe's Things Fall Apart, Emecheta's the Joys of Motherhood and Wendt's The Mango's Kiss, one thing I've been keeping an eye out for is how I can distinguish these texts from similaraly themed western novels. Things Fall Apart was relatively easy, because the society and life cycle depicted is fairly disimilar to a modern western ( Read more... )